Sunday, July 24, 2016

What is Asian racism? In Africa Indians brought by the British to Africa to fulfill middle management posts or run small enterprises treated the whites as superiors and the Africans as inferiors. So in Europe and the US some Asians play Uncle Tom and identify with whites against blacks other Asians who have been on the receiving end of white racism side with blacks […]

I reply:

Marx Karl,

You display remarkable racism and a very poor understanding of human nature by thinking Asians need whites to condition them on how to think about other races.

You obviously have no familiarity with any Asian society.

By thinking that whites are the catalyst to everything, you are in fact a white supremacist.

Believing racism to be strictly a white disease, many progressives conclude that all “people of color” must be in solidarity against whites. In their cartoonish world view, racist and predator whites are pitted against victimized and prejudice-free blacks, browns and yellows.

It has never occurred to these progressives that any man, of any color, has a complex and evolving range of opinions about all races and ethnicities. By sight alone, he will react differently to different types. No one is color blind. Even a slight shift in accent will transform the listener.

Few things are as pathetic, comic and infuriating as a progressive striving to show “a person of color” that he’s not racist while referencing, nearly nonstop, to that person’s race.

Racial assumptions are often complicated, challenged or refuted through direct encounters, however, and that’s why I’m an alcoholic. (Just kidding.) Going to my local bar, I’m presented with individuals, not types, for as soon as I talk to a man, he’s no longer just some Italian, Irish, black or Chinese guy, and J.J., whom you’re about to meet, is certainly no stereotypical Puerto Rican. He’s just J.J.

All these pizzerias are going out of business. It’s the yuppies. They don’t want regular hoagies and pizzas. It has to be whole wheat this, gluten-free that. Regular pizzas just ain’t good enough for them.

I’m a Chinese food eater. I worked in Chinatown, New York, from 70 to 73. I grew up right there, Canal Street. I’ve eaten stuff no American people would eat. “Oooh, what is that? It moves!” What the fuck, just eat it! You know, jelly fish and stuff like that, and it’s fuckin’ good. I’ve eaten seaweed. I was eating kale before kale was popular. Now, everybody wants to eat kale. You know these people have eaten this stuff for thousands of years, and you’re just discovering it?

My first job, I worked for these two Irish brothers on Canal Street. They sold fruits and vegetables. I was playing hooky from school, so they asked me, “You want to work?” I said sure, so they gave me a fly swatter. I was like, “What? Am I supposed to swat flies?!”

You know how people always grab and squeeze fruits so they would get bruised? My job was to swat people’s hands.

On top of my pay, the brothers also gave me food stamps. They would give me, like, thirty or forty bucks of food stamps at a time. The fruit business was just a front. They made real money selling heroin.

One of their partners was this old, Chinese mobster. This guy would only take gold for payments, slips of gold, and he would take diamonds from the Jews. You know those Jews with side locks? It’s a hundred degrees out and they have those long coats on. Yeah, these Jews would bring diamonds to the Chinese guy in exchange for heroin.

The Chinese guy said to me, “I’m going to ride the black horse as far as I can, to the very edge, but before I get there, I want to have a well of gold.” That’s what he said, “a well of gold”!

Later, I had a job at a pizzeria in North Carolina. It was by the freeway. The place was busy as shit. This Sicilian guy, Joe, was taking in 40, 50 thousand dollars a week.

One day, this kid showed up, and he was like, “You like to smoke pot?” “Yeah, yeah!” This kid was, like, a crazy redneck kid. I said, “Wow, this is good stuff. How much do you want? How much for an ounce?”

I asked the kid, “What about a big garbage bag?” He said, “Sixty bucks?” I called New York right away, “Yo, come down here and bring the car. We got baaaags! Marijuana, all you can get!”

There’s a secret in this country they don’t tell you about. Have you heard of R.J. Reynolds? They and the other tobacco companies were the ones growing this shit, and the sheriffs in those states were protecting them.

You know that the sheriff in every state has more power than the FBI? The sheriff can go everywhere. The FBI can’t.

You hear all that shit about the KKK and sheriffs… they’re all together, they’re the same people. All that redneck, KKK, sheriff, state police, they’re all together, they’re all related. Cousin Joe, cousin Bob, ba ba bee ba boom!

I know a good six or seven L&I and LCB, licenses and inspections, and liquor control guys. I went to eat with an L&I guy, and he pulled out a thick roll like this. Hundreds and twenties. I asked him, “Why do you have to show me that, man?” But you know how it is, they become your friends, they have to impress you.

When they take you out to eat, they take you to places where nobody else eats.

Right here, I know lots of Vietnamese guys who pay. It’s like, Hi! Hi! They’re hugging and kissing like they’re family. You can have some food on the house, and this is for you to take home. The inspector goes home. There’s some noodles, and something extra at the bottom. Oh yeah, here’s a couple hundred dollars! He gets number five to go, and there’s a little extra!

Happy birthday! Here’s a birthday card, and in the envelope, there’s a couple of hundred bucks. This is for your daughter’s birthday. How’s the family? And they’ll look at you like, ha ha, but they’ll take it.

If you don’t pay, they can come in and, you know, there’s something wrong over here, and something wrong over here. They can close you. You can get fucked up.

In New York, it’s like that. Here, it’s like that. Jersey is like that. I’ve been in places in the middle of nowhere, it’s like that, so don’t let anybody tell you…

Here, you have to pay Brady a hundred grand to become a judge. The Democrats have run this city for, what, fifty-one years now? The Republicans control the liquor board. It hasn’t been audited in 45 years.

What’s a fundraiser? What’s a charity event? It’s just a loophole, another way to pay. Pay to play, that’s what it is.

Listen, in every culture, in India, Asia, everywhere south of the border, in Jamaica, Haiti, it’s like that. It’s everywhere. Here, too.

Then there’s the civic forfeiture law. That’s when they take your house because somebody sold drugs in it. You know they’ve never been audited? Nobody knows where the money goes, if it’s the cops, the state or whoever.

Trump is a gangster. People have no idea. First, to build anything with concrete, construction, you have to pay off and be involved with those people. You have to sit down with them. That’s Mafia. You’re in the casino business, goddamn, you’ve got to deal with those people. When he was in the casino business in Atlantic City, he was involved with two of the biggest Asian mobsters in the world, then he broke away from them, because they were getting him hot. “Listen, we can’t be partners no more.” He sold a hundred million dollars’ worth of properties to this Russian guy. Dmitry R… I can’t pronounce his last name. It turned out this guy’s one of the biggest mobsters in Russia. So, Trump goes on TV and says, “I can work with Putin.” Yeah, because he knows all of them! “I can work with China on trades.” Yeah, because he knows all of them!

Hillary gets caught, but they don’t indict her. She’s paid everybody off. She’s got all the judges. If you and me do that, we’ll go to jail. That’s why people hate her.

They have computers and models, they know the people in this country are not happy. They know they’re going to have a revolution, what with the cops killing black kids, and even white kids.

Hey, man, you’ve got to stop this. We have you on video. You’re a murderer!

Now cops got shot, so the cops are thinking, we better cool out! They’ll have to. From 65 to 68, this country burned. You know, they killed Martin Luther King, Kennedy… but then they forgot! That all I need is lighter fluid and a match. Fire is a motherfucker. Make a lot of smoke, you can’t see. You can have robots and drones, but you can’t see through smoke.

If I’m a friggin black leader, a radical, I can use the computer to text billions of people. I can say tomorrow, Wednesday— that’s the landing on the moon, right?—I can say, tomorrow, in celebration of the moon landing, you can find an abandoned building or car, and burn it! Just go to Home Depot, nonchalant, black kids, just go buy some lighter fluid. At five O’clock, everybody gonna light it up! Boom, boom, boom, boom!

Firemen can’t see. You put a car in the middle of the road, like we did in 72, with the Young Lords. Abandoned car, right in the middle of the road. Bottles coming down from the roof. Cops won’t come near because nobody wants to get hit with a missile.

Back in the day, when we were gangsters, fighting, when we knew the other gang was coming, we’d fill these bottles with water or with sand.

We’d have a garbage can. We would drag it up six floors, full of bricks, bottles, everything. They’re missiles. If you hit somebody with one of those, from six floors up, you’re killing him. Fill a bottle with a bit of gasoline, make a little wick, it’s a cop killer. Boom, boom, boom, boom. From 65 to 68, man, this country was in a revolution.

Johnson was like, We have to pacify everybody, so he started welfare, food stamps, free lunch. All the radical blacks and Puerto Ricans, they went into city hall, they came out with a job.

All these friggin guys. Geraldo Rivera was a Young Lord, Puerto Rican Jew radical. Pablo Guzmán, the newsman from New York, another one. Eddie Acosta. All them guys went in, then came out with jobs. Same thing with the black guys. They went in, they came out with jobs.

They pacified them. They drugged them.

Timothy Leary was a CIA guy. They told him, “We need you to go in there and start the counter-culture bullshit.” LSD, tune in, drop acid, drop out. He did what they told him, and they gave him millions of dollars.

They got people high on marijuana and hashish, and sex, free sex. They said, “Hey, go suck dicks, girls! Go show your tits! Peace! Love!”

Girls want to be naked.

If you told them that, tomorrow, they could walk around naked, the whole country, they would do it. All the women out here, fat, ugly, whatever, they will all be naked.

Guys would be like, well, I don’t know, they would be a little more intimidated. They don’t want to see another guy’s trunk. They don’t want to see some ugly guy, but all the women would walk around naked.

All women, all over the world, they love slavery. They love the system.

After the First World War, when Germany wasn’t shit, and their money was worthless, the women would fuck anybody who had money, because they had to eat. I get that. When Hitler came into power, they went with him. They didn’t care if he was killing gays, Jews, whoever. They were like, “Heil, Hitler!”

When the Americans won, they went with the Americans!

That’s women. In the whole world, it’s always been like that.

That’s very rare… great women. If you look at history, patterns, women will follow whoever is in charge, because they love to be in that system of slavery.

They want the government to take care of them because they’ve been told since they’re little, “You need a strong man to take care of you.” By their grandmother and their great grandmother. “Oh, you must marry a guy with money.” They’ve been programmed.

Now, it’s very rare a woman who wants to be independent, and the feminist movement, the neo-feminist movement, they tried it, but guess what? They were like, “Yeah! Yeah! We don’t want to wear bras,” but when they got it, they didn’t know what to do next. There was nowhere to go.

All these movements, they run out of steam after a while. Yeah, yeah, we want to get married! I don’t care if you marry a dog. If you love the dog, you marry the dog, fuck the dog, that’s on you, I don’t care.

I don’t care if two gay guys are fucking and sucking, or two girls are sucking. I’m not going to pay to watch it, but there are people who will pay to watch it. I’ll pay to watch two women do it live, OK, but they better be good looking. I don’t want to see two butch dykes do it.

Once they get what they want, then what happens? They don’t know what to do next. You got gay rights! Who cares? You got married!

In Orlando, my friend trains people shooting, so he opens up a school called Pink Pistol. They’re all gay, guys, girls, whatever, transgenders, but they’re learning. They’re filing to get the paperwork, so they can carry and have a concealed permit. He started it before the shooting, but it’s getting bigger. It’s going franchise.

All of a sudden, all these gay people are for Trump because he’s the only one who will speak up for them. Hillary won’t. So it’s fuckin… you see how crazy shit gets?

The Cubans in Miami are mad. They have citizenship, they’re in construction, and here come a bunch of Mexicans to undercut them. The Cubans also remember Elian Gonzalez. They’re going to make Hillary pay for that.

Louis Farrakhan is for Trump. He was interviewed by that crazy guy down in Texas, what’s his name, Alex Jones, yeah… Farrakhan is for Trump.

I can’t vote, I’m a criminal, but I’d go with a winner. They’re going to put Trump in. He’s saying all kinds of bullshit. Trump can kill somebody and they’ll still put him in.

I don’t take things serious. I’m sixty now. When I look at my cousins in their forties and fifties, and they all have white hair, it’s because they worry. I don’t have white hair. I don’t care.

Did you see Trump at the convention last night? He came out with all the smoke. It was like professional wrestling!

Trump is the white horse. They’re trying to play him like they did in the Bible. You know the Bible… there’s a white horse coming that will fix everything. Trump’s the sheriff. The sheriff always comes on a white horse.

-----------------As for replying to "Karl Marx", Linh, all I feel to say is, don't disrespect yourself.

Yes, I have thought similar thoughts to yours about white supremacism and white superiority.Lots of people in the world show hatred of whites... and it's just how they rationalize a mad desire to be like whites (with the complexes of inferiority, paranoiae, and hatred that shall accrue from such feelings).Even India and China are under the spell now.

Chinese copy the West like Russia copied France back in the 19th.You see them compulsively piling up stocks of Hermes and Vuitton stuff... as a status symbol, they understand nothing of style and elegance.This is the characteristic of rising aristocracies: they imitate declining ones.Same for their obsession with playing the piano (all music composed in the West, sure enough).

I don't blame them; their attitude shows extreme wisdom (wisdom is their strong suit, I believe).They know their limits, and have a big thirst for learning.Also, unlike many other ethnicities and races around the world, they don't hate those they learn from.

I expect a prosper CHinese culture, producing philosophy, music, cinema, literature, from about 2030 onwards.Sure, it won't be like the old European one... that can't be matched. But still, not that we are dried out, it's those high-IQ people in the East who have to advance culture.I wish them the best.

And the best includes... not losing racial awareness, and their evolution-wise healthful ethnocentrism. Like someone we should all read anticipated,

"Talk of world peace is heard today only among the white peoples, and not among the much more numerous coloured races. This is a perilous state of affairs. When individual thinkers and idealists talk of peace, as they have done since time immemorial, the effect is negligible. But when whole peoples become pacifistic it is a symptom of senility. Strong and unspent races are not pacifistic. To adopt such a position is to abandon the future, for the pacifist ideal is a terminal condition that is contrary to the basic facts of existence. As long as man continues to evolve, there will be wars..."

"Believing racism to be strictly a white disease, many progressives conclude that all “people of color” must be in solidarity against whites. In their cartoonish world view, racist and predator whites are pitted against victimized and prejudice-free blacks, browns and yellows."

You forgot to mention Jews twice in that paragraph."Many progressives, with particular enthusiasm Jewish ones""Prejudice-free blacks, browns, yellows and Jews" (Doubt Jews are prejudice-free? Give a look at Twitter! Or the Washington Post. Or read a book by Gilad Atzmon.)

P.S. Though Jews are among the most powerful whites, they've managed to be depicted as an eternally persecuted minority. This neat taxonomy is an attempt to sprare them from any censure for abuse of power. Some of the most dominant, bellicose and unpatriotic Jews are also disguised as "neo-conservatives," thus discrediting your average Joe Sixpack, of any ethnicity, including Jewish, who's actually trying to conserve what's worth saving in this society.

Although racism is quite real, there is no such thing as Race. The term is a misnomer; an invalid distinction. There is only One (1) specie of Human.

The concept is a divide and conquer tool but can only work with shallow people; people who live on the surface of things: those who confuse $Ymb01 with Reality. It only works on the infantilized—those who do not know themselves.

It should be noted that if a person believes the distinction to be valid, that person is a racist by default and definition.

We are all Children of the Creator—whatever that actually means. We derive from the same Source. The moral obligation to treat others with equanimity, an immutable Law that governs our relationships, is rooted in this fact.

To follow up on what Prem said, in Trinidad the British colonists abolished slavery and then shipped Indians over as indentured servants to work the farms. Currently the middle class government jobs in the oil-producing nation mostly go to Africans while the Indians on average remain poorer.

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Born in Vietnam in 1963, I came to the US in 1975, and have also lived in Italy, England and Germany. I'm the author of a non-fiction book, Postcards from the End of America (2017), two books of stories, Fake House (2000) and Blood and Soap (2004), six of poems, All Around What Empties Out (2003), American Tatts (2005), Borderless Bodies (2006), Jam Alerts (2007), Some Kind of Cheese Orgy (2009) and A Mere Rica (2017), and a novel, Love Like Hate (2010). I've been anthologized in Best American Poetry 2000, 2004, 2007, Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, Postmodern American Poetry: a Norton Anthology (vol. 2) and Flash Fiction International: Very Short Stories From Around the World, etc. I'm also editor of Night, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam (1996) and The Deluge: New Vietnamese Poetry (2013). My writing has been translated into Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Icelandic and Finnish, and I've been invited to read in London, Cambridge, Brighton, Paris, Berlin, Leipzig, Halle, Reykjavik, Toronto, Singapore and all over the US. I've also published widely in Vietnamese.